Daylight lightting in FSX...or just wishful thinking ?

[Guest Sybull]

Whilst I do not yet have FSX, I regularly visit this forum. Now I don't know if it was my imagination or not, but I sure I read somewhere that one of the features that came with DX10 in FSX was "realtime" lighting IN the virtual cockpit from outside (I.E the sun/Moon) so that the lighting/shadows/reflections in the cockpit would be representative of the angle/brightness of the sun or moon. Is this true ? I havn't seen any screenshots demonstrating this and it is one feature which I think would add to the imerssion factor when flying in a VC. Am I going mad ?

[PhilTaylor 45]

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2007...-dx10-info.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sebby1234/archive/20...dowing-vcs.aspx

[Guest Sybull]

Thank you very much for the reply. Looks very very promising. I think once that becomes more commonplace it will be a really good effect. Quite soon, with the amount processors in a PC (4xCPU's, 2xGPU's, 1x PPU's etc) flight sims are going to finally match what we were imagining when when playing Sublogics Flight simulator II.It's official...I'm not going mad